cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5522689
A mother whose three-year-old girl’s hair was ripped out by an electric cleaning brush says the internet giant Temu “does not care about the safety of people”.
Amy, 36, from Norwich, bought the brush online for £4 to “make life easier” with housework, but it caught in her daughter’s hair when the child took it out of the box.
She reported the item as it appeared on the shopping site to Norfolk Trading Standards, who said Temu had now removed it from sale in the UK.
A spokesperson for the Chinese-owned site told the BBC: “We are deeply concerned to hear about this incident and wish the child a full and speedy recovery.”
They added: “The safety and wellbeing of our customers are always our top priority, and our customer service team is in contact with the family to offer assistance.”
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This is basically propaganda from the 90’s created by McDonald’s to fostet a sense that people are filing tons of frivolous lawsuits. When an elderly woman received THIRD DEGREE BURNS to her pelvis from coffee. Basically, Mcdonalds kept their coffee at 180 degrees because it was fresh longer or something that ultimately made them more money. They refused to settle for only medical costs, so Stella Liebeck’s lawyer went for blood in the millions… McDonald’s hired a PR firm that basically specialized in this kind of thing, and the lie of frivolous lawsuits has persisted ever since.
Yeah. Also, this was not the first lawsuit, they had already been ordered to lower their coffee temp and decided to treat the lawsuits as a cost of business. The legal system is often mocked for overly small findings against big business, but in this case McDonald’s was taking the piss a little too blatantly. McDonald’s unsurprisingly did reduce their coffee temps after that, because the damages were finally appropriate to achieve their goal.